Re: [Duplicity-talk] [PATCH] Warn if '--full-if-older-than' date is coming up soon

[Ed Blackman]

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 01:33:08PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> On 20.05.2012 05:22, Ed Blackman wrote:
> > I run daily incremental duplicity backups with the --full-if-older-than option 
> > to do full backups on a fixed schedule every X days.  I got tired of doing the 
> > date math to figure out whether a full backup was coming up soon, so I edited 
> > the duplicity script to add a notice message to the backup output if the full 
> > backup was coming soon (within 5 days).
>
> Good idea. How about simply stating the days until the next full per default?

I prefer to have the message only show up close to when the full backup 
will run, so that it stands out when I visually scan the logs.  But if 
the change was implemented as showing a countdown every day, I could 
filter the message out the rest of the time with some scripting.  I 
already filter the logs to pull out messages of interest.

> Why exactly do you need to do when the next full is up?

I want my backups off site, but am behind a consumer grade cable modem 
(slow uplink).  I therefore have duplicity make backups to local disk, 
then sync separately.  Incremental backups go up quickly enough, but 
full backups can take 3-5 days at full speed.  I use a rate limiting 
daemon to prevent the sync from filling the upload pipe and affecting 
other apps (further slowing the sync, though), but still want to know 
that the full backup is coming.

--
Ed Blackman

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